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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Adaptive Path's Jesse James Garrett has an interesting essay title Ajax: A New Approach To Web Applications. The ideas discussed in it are not as revolutionary as they are presented, developers have been using the XMLHttpRequest object since IE 5 using ActiveX, and Mozilla/Netscape and Safari have recently followed suit using Javascript.

The really interesting point is that we now have a technique that runs across most browsers (not IE only) that can add significant interactivity to our web applications.